Friday, 30 September 2016

Night Class: Reasoning Quiz for BOM/IBPS Exam

Directions (Q. 1-6): Study the following information to answer the given questions.

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each such that they are equidistant from each other. In row 1, Anika, Bianca, Catlyn, Dhruv, Esha and Feroj are sitting facing South. In row 2, Parul, Qadir, Rudra, Saumya, Tanuj and Vikram are sitting facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement, each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. Three persons sit between Catlyn and Dhruv. Either Catlyn or Dhruv sits at an extreme end of the line. The one who faces Dhruv sits third to the left of Rudra. Saumya faces the one who sits third to the left of Anika and he cannot sit adjacent to Rudra. The immediate neighbour of Qadir faces the immediate neighbour of Anika. Only one person sits between Parul and Tanuj, who is facing the one sitting on the immediate right of Esha. Neither Esha nor Feroj faces Rudra. Vikram and Qadir cannot sit adjacent to each other.

Q1. Who among the following faces Bianca?

(a) Parul

(b) Qadir

(c) Tanuj

(d) Rudra

(e) Saumya

Q2. Who among the following sit at the extreme ends of the rows?

(a) Dhruv, Qadir

(b) Tanuj, Feroj

(c) Esha, Saumya

(d) Bianca, Tanuj

(e) Feroj, Qadir

Q3. If Esha is related to Parul in the same way as Catlyn is related to Saumya, which of the following is Anika related to, following the same pattern?

(a) Vikram

(b) Rudra

(c) Qadir

(d) Tanuj

(e) Can’t be determined

Q4. How many persons are sitting between Esha and Feroj?

(a) None

(b) One

(c) Two

(d) Three

(e) Four

Q5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

(a) Parul–Dhruv

(b) Qadir–Anika

(c) Qadir–Feroj

(d) Saumya–Bianca

(e) Tanuj– Anika

Q6. Which of the following is true regarding Parul?

(a) Qadir is an immediate neighbour of Parul.

(b) Parul faces the immediate neighbour of Bianca.

(c) Parul sits second from the left end of the row.

(d) Parul sits at one of the extreme ends.

(e) Parul faces the one who is second from the right end of the row.

Directions (7-11): Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

In a global environment summit, eight representatives, viz. P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Z are representing different countries, viz India, America, Pakistan, Russia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Spain, but not necessarily in the same order. All of them are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. V sits third to the left of T. R and Z and also their immediate neighbours do not represent Pakistan. Only one person sits between W and the representative of Pakistan. The representatives of Russia and America are immediate neighbours of each other. R represents neither Japan nor Russia. Only one person sits between P and the one who represents Sri Lanka. P does not represent either Pakistan or America. R sits third to the right of Z. Z represents Spain. T is not an immediate neighbour of either R or Z. The one who represents India is an immediate neighbour of T. Three people sit between Z and the representative of Iraq. Q is not representing either Pakistan or India.

Q7. Who among the following represents America?

(a) Q

(b) R

(c) T

(d) V

(e) Cannot be determined

Q8. Who among the following represent immediate neighbours of V?

(a) P, Q

(b) P, S

(c) T, W

(d) P, R

(e) P and the representative of Japan

Q9. Which of the following is true regarding W?

(a) W sits second to the right of P.

(b) W represents Russia.

(c) W sits between Q and the representative of Spain.

(d) Only one person sits between W and the representative of America.

(e) None is true

Q10. How many persons sit between S and the representative of Russia, when counted anticlockwise from S?

(a) None

(b) One

(c) Two

(d) Three

(e) Four

Q11. Which of the following is true?

(a) S represents Pakistan.

(b) Only one person is sitting between the representatives of Russia and Japan.

(c) The representative of America is an immediate neighbour of W.

(d) One person sits between Z and the representative of Pakistan.

(e) None is true

Directions (12-15): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer

Q12.In how many hours did a train XYZ complete a journey between two stations P and Q?

I. According to A’s wife, the train took more than five hours but less than ten hours to complete the journey.

II. According to B’s husband, the train took more than eight hours but less than twelve hours to complete the journey.

(a) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(c) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.

(d) if the data in both statements I and II even together are not sufficient to answer the question.

(e) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

Q13. What will be the code for ‘beautiful and lovely dream’ in a code language?

(a) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

(c) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.

(d) if the data in both statements I and II even together are not sufficient to answer the question.

(e) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

Direction(14-15):Below are given statements followed by conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they appear to be at variance with commonly known facts, and then decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements. For each question, mark out an appropriate answer choice that you think is correct.